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Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-12
KurhRnk.

Owing TO the large sales aud great demand
the price of lots in Burbank will Esoon be
advanced again. as the buildings, improve
ments and location justifes double the pres
ent prices, which are still lower than any
surrounding towns OF not half theEadvanta-
ges or Importance as a suburban foothill
home to Los Angeles. Its commanding
view. on the through line of railroad. only
fifteen minutes ride, Is second to none in
Lower California.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-12
BURBANK,

L. 4. GARNsEY, Room 16 Bryson Block
a. w, KING, 113 West First Street.
II. l.. MACNEIL, 16 Court Street.
Il. e. HALL, Lawyer Block.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-12
FARMERS and MERCHANTS BANK

IN s.sy ' Residence s as
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-12

The reporter then went to the hos.
pital to see Petrie, and try to induce
him to say something more of the at.
fair, but the ladies in charge politely re.
fused to allow the patient to be seen, as
DR.. Orme had given strict orders not to
let any one talk to him. The ladies
were in total ignorance OF how Petrie
received his injuries. No amount OF
persuasion would induce them to allow
Petrie to be seen, and the reporter
left.
DR.. Orme was seen late last evening.
He considered the affair very unfortu.
nate. and hoped it would not be written
up elaborately. He was friendly to
Petrie, and promised the reporter a
statement from his patient in day OF
so. While the Doctor considered Pet.
rie's injuries severe. ne did moi
think he would lose his eyesight.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10

this young girl has lived all her life in the
retirement of a country house. Her face is
long and somewhat inclined to leanness, but
its every lineament bespeaks the patrician.
Her complexion is rich Give, her eyes
hazel and her hair black and curling. She
looks like queen among women as she stands
receiving her callers.
1t is said by those who know Miss Davis
well that she helped her father considerably
in the preparation Of his recent history of the
war. Her studies from youth had been di-
rected in the line of southern war records and
political history, SO that when it came to pre-
pairing the work she was valuable assistant.
Her aunt says that the old Confederate leader
relied on her almost entirely in the matter of
collecting and arranging statistics of the war
and employed her as amanuensis most of the
time while preparing the work. Nothing
pleased her SO much as hunting up facts and
theories to defend the south and the policy of
her fathers administration Her favorite re-
treat at home is the big library, which con-
sists almost exclusively of war records and
histories of the United States. Here she
reads to her father several hours daily, while
the fallen chieftain listens, mods and dreams
of the past. 1t is said that he fairly dotes on
his handsome child-cannot bear to let her
out of his sight. 1t was only after long
struggle that he consented to her trip to
Richmond and the north. She seems
equally devoted to her father, for she has
refused several advantageous offers of mar
rlage from wealthy Mississippi planters, in
order to soothe his declining years by her
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10
All Ripht. De Soto.

One day last week an old man with a bald
head, and obviously with a drink or two
slowed away in the place where drink does
an old man the most good, boarded Van
Buren, street car and looked around for q
seat. OF course he found none, and, on ap-
pealing to the conductor, was told that he
would be able to find him one by the time the
car reached Western avenue.
''All right, De Soto," replied the aged pas
senger.
The conductor finished his fare taking and
resumed his perch On the rear brake, but the
old mans words kept ringing in his ears.
"'All right, De Soto! All right, De Soto'
What the thunder did he mean by thatY'
the conductor asked himself, and he finally
became SO worked up about it that he went
in and asked the old man what it was he had
been giving him.
ooh" said the delighted old party, with a
chuckle, sin 1858, when the first Atlantic
cable was laid, they got few words across,
you remember One of the messages which
came from Valencia, Ireland, in response to
an inquiry how the wire was working, was:
All right, De Soto.' De Soto was the opera
tors name, you know, and, by gosh, that was
the last word they did get through that old
cable before she went back on IN completely.
For months that was all you could hear in
this country. 1t was in every mans mouth.
Whenever we wanted to say that thing was
all right, when in fact it was all wrong, we'd
say, 'All right, De Soto,' see! That was what
meant when you told me I'd get a seat at
Western avenue. know that this car doesn't
run any further, and so do you, you young
scoundrel "-Chicago Herald.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10

THE STEVENS BATTERY WHEN SOLD.
Her boilers numbered ten, developing 5000
horse power, with eight engines to drive two
independent screw propellers Her bunkers
had capacity for 900 tons Of coal. The
deck was shot proof. The inclined armor on
the sides consisted of 6;l inches of iron plates
backed with IA inches Of locust timber and
secured to Ginch wrought iron girders.
The Messrs. Stevens spent nearly half a
million dollars on the vessel during their
lives and on the commodore's death he pro-
vided in his will that the vessel should be
completed, besides supplying machinery to
the value Of 81 ,0O0, 900 to perform the work.
When complete the vessel was by special act
of congress to be presented to the state of
New Jersey. The state accepted the gift.
The late Gen. Mcclellan was appointed to
take charge of the work. When the vessel
was ready for launching the funds provided
for its completion proved insufficient, and the
state of New Jersey in 1874 ordered the vessel
sold. Here was an opportunity for the ma
tion to secure "for song" an ironclad which
would have been the most formidable in the
world even to this day. She was about ready
for her armament. A few hundred thou.
sands would have purchased her, and she
would have been worth as many millions to-
day. Did they purchase hers Nations are
not so provident. She was sold for old junk,
and so securely were some of her parts put
together that they had to be blasted apart.
Thus do republics reward the endeavors of
their public spirited citizens
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10

MAGAZINE OF THE NEW HOTCHKlSS RIFLE.
But to revert to the subject. The 2,25O
rifles did not suit the officers, as they stated
that there was no immediate necessity for
them, and they are consequently now stored
and rusting away probably, no one knows
where The great point in favor Of the Lee
Remington is its rapidity of shooting and the
fact of its magazine being located near the
trigger of the gun, thus in nowise affecting
its equipoise after the discharge of several
shots. This gun has recently been adopted by
the British government, while immense num-
bers of them are now in use in the Turkish,
Chinese and other armies.
The new Hotchkiss is the other new Ameri-
can magazine gun. 1t seems to possess all
the advantages of the Lee Remington weapon
with the possible exception of equipose, the
magazine in this arm being located in the
stock. Both of these guns are fired by means
of bolt. In the new Hotchkiss the magazine
is stationary. In the Lee e-Remington it is
detachable. The speed of the former is about
thirty-fve shots minute, while that of the
latter is about thirty-one.
But there are several other good magazine
rifles of American make, and one or more of
them should be adopted.
The fact is, the best and most improved
small arms in the world are made in America,
but the United States government does not
encourage enterprise in that direction. But
for foreign orders Yankee gunmakers would
have to go out of the business.
1t looks as if the United States had better
submit to any indignity from foreign power
than engage in contest at arms. Neither
on land or sea is she prepared for defense
even, and it would require years for her to
get in readiness.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10

ing Col. Robertson, from performing any
duties of that position. The fight for
the lieutenant governorship was import
ant, for on it depended whether the next
senator elected by the legislature would be a
Republican or Democrat. Col. Robertson
appealed the case, and the remarkable feat
ure of the trial before the supreme court was
the appearance of Senator Harrison as coun-
sci for the appellant and Judge Turpie being
counsel for the Democratic appellee, these be-
ing the rival contestants for the United
States senate At one time it was expected
that both houses would adjourn to the su-
preme court room, hear the arguments of the
two senatorial claimants and then decide who
was best fitted to represent Indiana in the
United States senate.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10
Patients for the Insane Asylum.

The laws of Missouri upon the admittance
of persons as patients to the insane asylum
are SO lax that it is possible for a perfectly
sane person to be confined among maniacs
and made to suffer untold torments. So
liable, indeed, are mistakes to occur that
nineteen cases of the kind developed last year
alone. Let us say policeman finds man
on the street acting. as he thinks, strangely.
He bustles him off in the hoodlum wagon to
the station, and the fact that the prisoner
swears good deal is taken as further evil
dence that he is dangerous A health depart
ment physician is summoned and examines
the supposed crazy man by talking to him
through the bars of his CELL The man is
aggrieved, and continues stubborn and vio-
lent in bis denunciations of the men who
have made him the trouble. The physician
is liable to think him insane, and so reports.
A permit is at once made out, and the poor
devil is sent to the asylum. The more he
protests he is sane, the more the authorities
believe he is insane. After some days of con-
finement, however, he is examined calmly by
an expert, and found to be perfectly rational.
1t ought not to be SO easy to get man pro-
nounced insane. In most states it is purely
judicial function, and the judgment Of insan-
ity is pronounced only by a court.-Secretary
of Board Of Health in Globe Democrat.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10
a Case of Short Haul.

A seedy looking man got aboard Chicago
and Northwestern train at Racine the other
day. The train was about two miles out of
Racine when the conductor came up and
asked him for his ticket.
"Ain't got any, but I'm railroad man my
self"
"Where do you want to go to-"
"Chicago"
"Well," said the good natured conductor,
reaching for the bell rope, "Ill do the best l
can for you"
Thanks, thanks. We railroad men should
stand together"
"Yes. We have a heavy train to-day, and
this is a down grade along here. think the
train will run about ], 500 feet before it comes
to q stop. Ill carry you that far with
pleasure"
A minute or two later the seedy looking
man was jumping off into the snow"
"Houre very kind" lie said, "to carry me
even this far. But seein's we're both rail-
road men, You know, couldn't you change
your mind and take Inc further.'
Sorry l can't oblige YOU" replied the con-
ductor, waving "go ahead" signal TO the
engineer, "but the fact is, that we have to be
very particular since congress has got to
passing laws governing railroads Under the
law the most / can do for you is to give you
short haul. Good day."
And the train puffed on in the direction Of
Chlcago.-Chicago Herald
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10

cents to relieve his immediate necessities?'
His honor took off his glasses and asked:
"Mr. Bebee, recognize your signals, etcetera,
but cannot for the life of me recollect the
order; so many, you know"
II am surprised, brother, greatly sur
prised," remarked the prisoner. II never
knew candidate who ever forgot his initia-
tion into the United Order of Benevolent Sons
of Good Fellowship of the Temple of Solo
mon," and he gave the hailing sign with en-
bellishments.
"Ah, yes; had it mixed up with the An
cient Order of Old Billygoats," exclaimed his
honor. "Do you recognize this sign, brother?"
and he dipped his pen in the red ink and held
it up"
1T isn't in the ritual, is it?" asked the pris-
oner, as he rubbed his head.
at means, Mr.. Bebee, that the court has
dropped onto your little racket" sternly re-
piled his honor. Then picking up blotter,
he waved it in a circle and said: "Does this
sign seem familiar to you!"
Don't recollect it," meekly responded the
accused
"Well, as I interpret it, it means that
you get three months. Now give the part
ing sign to the Most Worthy Tiler and Mas
ter OF the Guard at the door and pass down."
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10


commission reported favorably upon the Lee
Remington, the Chaffee- Reece and the new
Hotchkiss. Seven hundred and fifty of each
of these were ordered and put into the hands
of the troops. From reports received from
over 100 different companies it became
evident that the Lee-Remington was the
favorite, with the new Hotchkiss close
second. reporter called upon the
Remingtons to ask them if in case of war the
government should raise an army of half
million, what time would be required to sup
ply them with the necessary arms. The
answer was poser The immense Reming-
ton factory at lion, N. Y, could be made
to turn out 1000 guns day, but it required
about six months in which to prepare for this
great outfit.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10
MAP SHOWING PROPOSED CANAL.

The present company, which is composed
of wealthy merchants and business men, at
once bought mammoth dredging machine
which has penetrated inland for about half
mile. By the requirements Of the charter
the canal must be completed by or before
June 26, of this year, and as about eight
miles remain to be dredged, there is every
likelihood that the charter Of the company
will be forfeited, unless the legislature should
see fit to grant the petition, now pending, for
an extension of time.
The canal, when completed, will be seven
ty-five feet wide on the bottom and have a
mean width of 200 feet at low water. At the
turn outs, it must be 500 feet WIDE These
turn outs comprise one-fourth of the entire
length of the canal. The depth of water is to
be twenty-three feet at low tide.
The machine which is doing the work of
excavating cost s75,OOO. There are fourteen
men employed on and about the machine
The dredging is done by means Of an endless
chain of thirty-nine buckets, driven by two
steam engines of seventy-fve horse power
each. Five thousand cubic yards of earth
can be excavated and discharged in day of
ten hours by this giant machine By using
the electric light for night work the capacity
may be doubled
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10
Would we return
Would we return?
Ring Out" all the Growers.


4 miller sat in chestnut tree,
and cracked some ancient nuts for me.
He said that flour was as cheap as dirt,
That his bank account was badly hurt
BY the profitless trade of the dying year;
That flour was low and wheat was dear.
Ring out, my merry chestnut bell,
Ring sharp and clear, and to him tell
That this same tale he told before,
And bid him tell it nevermore.
The builder Of mills, in his easy chair,
To me doth often sadly swear
That business to the dogs must go,
If prices keep so very low;
That things look darkly blue and drear,
And says, 'Oh, shoot the glad New Year."
Ring out, oh, trusty chestnut bell,
Ring sharp and clear, and to him tell
That this same tale he's told before,
And bid him tell it-nevermore.
Now let me sit in mine Office chair,
With my good big pen and my frowsy hair,
And let me write that ''in eighty-seven
Both millers and furnishers find their heaven;
For prices viii rise and profits will grow"
And then l can say, II told you So"
But bark, do l hear a chestnut bell?
No, It's only a card, with words that tell,
As 1 lay it away on my dusty shelf,
Somewhat of a liar l am myself"
Northwestern Miller.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10
COST NOTHING.

| Story of Man Who Ate Himself SICK
Because Another Paid for 1t.
| A curious looking old fellow, dressed in
gray "homespun," was found lying in an
alley When questioned by some one he
| turned over with a groan and said:
$50 on away from here, now, and let me
| die"
"Why do you want to die?"
because | am a blamed fool"
"Come, get up; that's no excuse
eyes, it is. Go on away, l tell you, and let
me die"
Haven't you been drinkingp
"No, hain't teched drap. Go on away
and let me die, tell you. A man that amt
got no more sense than have amt fitten to
live. It's dangerous for him to walk about"
"Come, tell me what you did"
With an effort and another groan he raised
up, leaned back against the wall and said:
If tell you will you go on awayp
ayes"
"Wal, I'll go yo whuther or no. Early
this mornin' | come inter town an met fell
Ter that knowed. He asked me to go round
an take breakfast with him. l had dun eat
breakfast, but as it wasn't no expense to me
concluded that it wouldn't do to let the
vidults 60 to waste, SO l went with him. l
eat long handled shovel full Nv butter
cakes and drunk four cups Nv coffee, argyin'
all the time that it WANT costin me nothin'.
Airter got through went knockin' round,
an putty soon met a feller that eat dinner
with me while he was candidate last sum-
mer. He said that it was gettin' putty well
along in the day, but that if I'd go round
home with him he'd skeer up some breakfast.
l started to say no, but ricollectin' how he ate
at my table, went with him. On the way
he got lot Nv these here great tlong sausages.
Wall, / stored away about two pounds NV
them sausages, eat about my hatful of bis
cults an drunk three cups of coffee By
this time l was putty well filled up, but
shortly afterwards one Nv the boys that lives
out my way told me that he had found a sa-
loon whar they put out a whole lot Nv vid-
ults an let people eat all they wanted to, so,
as it didn't cost nothin. went round. / let
in on a big dish Nv sour potatoes an raw
cabbage, an made myself at home. After I
got through with that went to dinner with
feller because it didn't cost me anything,
an eat putty hearty. Then l struck out an
eat few apples that slipped out Nv a
wagon, an then eat a piece Nv cheese that
found in a saloon, just because it didn't cost
anything About this time the Old Boy COM
menced to overtake me- an I lodged in here
an drapped down, an hope I'll die before
git outen here, fur, as said jist now, q man
that amt got no more sense than have amt
fitten to live. When think that have eat
myself to death jest because it didn't cost
anything it makes me so mad don't know
what to do. Oh, how do suffer all overl'-
Arkansaw Traveller.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10
THE COUNTERSIGN.

His Honor Recognized the Sign of q
Brother in Distress and Made Another.
He was a bearded man and his breath was
redolent with cloves and gin. Once upon a
time he had endeavored to train his hair into
pompadour and partially succeeded. But
only partially, for one-half stood up like
undying Truth, while the rest pointed to all
directions of the marine compass. He wore
winning smile and evidently intended to
captivate his honor with glance. But his
honor wasn't to be captivated and the pris
oner soon found it out. Then he started off
on new tack. Laying down his hat softly,
he slowly elevated his right hand to his ear
and bowed three times solemnly. Then he
laid his left hand ON his stomach and his ight
hand on his head and began working them
circularly. His honor put on his glasses and
looked down solemnly at the prisoner. That
individual stepped backward three PAGES,
three more to the left and back again. de-
scribing triangle. In q low voice he whis-
pered:
Brother, do you recognize the hailing
sign!'
His honor nodded and turned over a leaf on
the docket. The man at the bar then tapped
his forehead three times, and elevated his
arms over his head, saying: "The signal Of
distress, brother" The court merely bowed.
at will be all right, then?' cheerily asked the
prisoner. II suppose l can 60. And say,
brother, can't you advance brother fifty
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10
THE STEVENS BATTERY COMPLETED.

In 1S4l Commodore Stevens, of New jersey,
foresaw the value Of such a fortress. and
urged upon congress the construction of a
vessel built for that purpose and embodying
some inventions Of his own. He sealed his
faith in the scheme by contributing nearly
81 100000 toward the construction of it
after congress had consented to grant $780,
600. The "penny wise and pound foolish"
policy of nations is well illustrated in the
history of this vessel, which is here briefly
told.
The Stevens iron clad steam battery, as it
was called, was begun in 1854. Her designers
were Robert L. and Commodore Edwin A.
Stevens, of Hoboken, N. j., at which place
she was built. Her dimensions were: Length,
42O feet; breadth, SO feet; depth 2S feet, with
a draft of water that could be varied from
II feet to % feet when in an engagement
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10
Age of the Infinitely Little"

Cowardice is always vulgar, and the pres
ent age is pre-eminently cowardly; full of
egotistic nervousness and unconcealed fear of
all those physical dangers to which science
has told all men they are liable. Pasteur is
its god, and the microbe its Mephistopheles.
A French writer defined it the other day as
the age of the infinitely little" 1t might be
also defined as the age of absorbing self con-
sciousness. 1t is eternally placing itself in
innumerable attitudes to pose before the
camera of a photographer; the old, the ugly,
the obscure, the deformed delight in multiply
ing their likenesses on cardboard, even more
than do the young, the beautiful, the famous
and the we'll made.-Ouida in North Ameri.
can Review
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10

After Washington's death, Martha burned
improper hands, and only one escaped the
flames. This was written just before Gen.
Washington accepted the command of the
army of the revolution. 1t is very affection
ate. He begins it with "My dearest" speaks
of her in it as my dear Patsy" and compli-
ments her by telling her that he would enjoy
more real happiness in one month with her
than he could possibly find abr Dad, if his stay
was to be seven times seven years. In this
letter he also incloses his will, with the re-
mark that he has no doubt that the provision
for her will be an agreeable one-Frank G.
Carpenter.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-10

she has visited with
unusual social hon
ors, and she proved
deserving of them.
She is of a true
south ern type.
She is just tall
enough to be COM
manding in appear
ance, and has a
willowy, grace f u !
form, which is clad
with a richness and
taste that are sur
prising when it is
remembered tn a t